In Safari, there are useful keyboard shortcuts for jumping to the beginning or end of webpages. Plus, those very same shortcuts have similar uses all around the Mac, and if you add a modifier key, they become text-selection helpers extraordinaire. They’re really very cool to know about, so here’s your opportunity!

By default, Mac OS X uses a built-in program called Archive Utility to handle compressing and uncompressing files. It gives us a quick way to shrink file sizes before emailing attachments, for example. But did you know that you can control these compressed files using a program buried deep within your hard drive? You can, and you should. Here’s how.

Chinese company Jiangsu Xuebao has filed suit against Apple accusing the American company of infringing on its Snow Leopard trademark in China. The company is best known for household products, but holds some trademarks in the electrical equipment and software categories.

Apple has tweaked the wording on its “Why you’ll love a Mac” webpage, replacing “It doesn’t get PC viruses” with “It’s built to be safe.” The change is being seen by many in the security world as a tacit admission by Apple that its Macintosh computers are more susceptible to malware and some other attacks than the company has previously claimed.

Apple rolled out its App Store for iOS and Mac App Store in 32 more countries on Friday, bringing the total number of countries where customers can buy iPhone, iPad and Mac apps through the company’s online stores up over 150.

Even if you use Address Book on your Mac or iOS device frequently, you may not know how simple it is to add notes to each contact. No entering into Edit mode, no extra steps, no chanting incantations to any Norse gods. In this tip, Melissa Holt’s going to show you just how easy keeping notes on your contacts’ lives really can be.

Apple released Java updates for Lion and Snow Leopard Tuesday—notably, the updates were released the same day that Oracle patched the software, as noted by Krebs on Security. All told, Apple patched 11 security flaws in the updates out of 14 patched by Oracle.

If you have multiple accounts on your Mac (or if you’re managing many computers), you may find it frustrating to have to remember the administrator’s username every time a standard user needs to do something that requires admin privileges. Luckily, our friends at Apple have provided us a way to add short aliases to our accounts. So if you’d like to get familiar with this simple method to avoid typing long usernames, come on in and read this tip.

Mac OS X’s Fonts Window, which is accessible from many programs by hitting Command-T, makes handling and choosing your fonts easier. (Note that we didn’t suggest that anything about fonts is ever actually easy.) In this article, Melissa Holt will show you some secrets of that little window and how to use them to your best advantage.

Apple released Aperture 3.2.4 on Thursday, an update that addresses two issues. The first is improved stability with Snow Leopard, and the second is an issue when working with external editors in whatever OS you’re working in.